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August 29, 2005
Introduction
Maureen Guignon was born in a loooong, long time ago in New Orleans. My Dad was career Navy and we spent the next 19 years of my life moving: to Navy bases in Chicago, Norfolk, Brooklyn and Virginia Beach as well as overseas assignments in Paris and Bangkok. I returned to the US to attend a Catholic womens' college in New York after graduating from high school in Bangkok and it was not a good transition....from a very exotic and wild life to a prison. So, I promptly married a cute guy from West Point and we went back overseas for the next 20 years.
My years in the Middle East (Egypt and Saudi Arabia) and in SEA (Indonesia) continued my interests in religion, particularly Islam, and when we moved back to the US 15 years ago, I returned to college and finished my undergraduate degree as well as a masters in history at GMU. I am presently in the PhD program in history as a full time student but I teach art history at GMU in the summers.
I mainly teach survey courses in ARTH but I also teach the Art History of the Islamic World and History of the Museum with a focus on cultural heritage. I hope to use this course to develop websites for the latter, upper level museum courses.
Posted by mguignon at August 29, 2005 07:12 PM